Sumptuously illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of period art, up to 16 x 8 inches, this petite coffee table book is a visual encyclopedia of more than 160 great leaders in the ancient world, from the mythological warrior Achilles to the brilliant general and strategist Zhou Yu from early 3rd-century China. Historian and senior museum curator Angus Konstam, author of Historical Atlas of Exploration, Sovereigns of the Seas, and Hunt the Bismarck, profiles such figures as Alaric, Alexander, Boudica, Julius Caesar, Ramses II, and Vespasian in some detail, while introducing Asian and lesser-known Western leaders.